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Wildfires in Lesotho
8 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 10,062 hectares burned across 10 constituencies.
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.
The season, week by week
Copernicus GWISLesotho, at this point in the year: 4,933 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 27,159.
2026
average 2012–2025
lowest and highest
The GWIS yearly series
2012–2026Yearly average 2016–202525,925 ha
Worst year2019 57,494 ha
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 4,933 | GWIS |
| 2025 | 19 | 4,157 | GWIS |
| 2024 | 185 | 54,635 | GWIS |
| 2023 | 170 | 40,850 | GWIS |
| 2022 | 93 | 24,395 | GWIS |
| 2021 | 111 | 24,880 | GWIS |
| 2020 | 72 | 17,122 | GWIS |
| 2019 | 198 | 57,494 | GWIS |
| 2018 | 43 | 9,258 | GWIS |
| 2017 | 95 | 21,834 | GWIS |
| 2016 | 20 | 4,629 | GWIS |
| 2015 | 81 | 18,651 | GWIS |
| 2014 | 223 | 59,946 | GWIS |
| 2013 | 239 | 65,427 | GWIS |
| 2012 | 25 | 5,774 | GWIS |
National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ | Largest of the year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2k | 1k | 3,502 | Lehlakaneng 1,257 ha | ||||||||||
| 2021 | 1k | 1,181 | Tenesolo 1,181 ha | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1k | 2k | 1k | 4,279 | Menkhoaneng 1,705 ha | |||||||||
| 2016 | 1k | 1,100 | Tsoelikana 1,100 ha |
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Qacha's Nek 3,933 ha · 4
- Leribe 1,689 ha · 1
- Butha-Buthe 1,340 ha · 2
- Thaba-Tseka 1,185 ha · 2
- Mohale's Hoek 1,121 ha · 1
- Mafeteng 134 ha · 1
- Berea 8 ha · 1
- Maseru 4 ha · 1